Bible Verses About Impenitence: General references

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is Yom Kippur, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all of the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all of the curses of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the Torah.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;